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Schools Gold Rush Project Questions

Helpful Pre & Post Excursion Project Ideas For Teachers & Students

The Gold History of the South Coast of New South Wales. Araluen and Mogo is a reflection of a phenomenon that occurred throughout Australia. This event was built on the efforts of our forebears and the pioneers. Our most important historians are the descendants of those pioneers. For example Georgina Jackson, manager of The Original Gold Rush Colony is the great great grand-daughter of Alexander Waddell, the first man to find gold in the Araluen. Staff member Ross Hosking is related by marriage to Andrew Tom, the descendant of The Tom Brothers, who really found the gold that Hargreave claimed to have found.

This set of questions is designed to get the students thinking about what life was like in the Australian Gold Rush days of the 1850s and to "stand in the shoes" of the goldfields diggers and their families.

Teachers may print out and use this page as a tool to form lesson plans, which address a spectrum of core subject areas, before or after an excursion or school camp at the Gold Rush Colony in Mogo.

Students may find this page stimulating and fun or could use the question topics as a springboard for school project ideas when studying the 1850's gold rush era.

The questions may be answered by a mixture of research and imagination.